Dan Abramov: Beyond React 16 | JSConf Iceland
What it is
Dan Abramov's JSConf Iceland talk on what came after React 16, with live-coded prototypes of async rendering and time slicing. It previews the ideas that became concurrent mode and suspense.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as the clearest demo of what concurrent rendering solves, including the memorable clock animation.
- 3 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2018, last 2022
What HN commenters said
“That clock animation is pure genius”
Clearest demo of what concurrent rendering solves
throwaway_bad, 2019-10 · Strong recommendation · in “React Concurrent Mode”
“If you like live coding demos, he also gave a talk at JSConf Iceland”
Live coding demo of future React features like asynchronous rendering
ggreer, 2018-10 · Recommendation · in “Introducing Hooks”
“Watch this, it explains it in detail”
Detailed explanation of how React concurrent rendering scales with device capabilities.
mlsarecmg, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “React in concurrent mode: 2000 state-connected comps re-rendered at 60FPS”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: react, concurrent mode, async rendering, live coding, javascript
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